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A Mock-up for the Development of a Digital Edition for Ancient Greek Fragmentary Poetry: Results of Its Evaluation

A Mock-up for the Development of a Digital Edition for Ancient Greek Fragmentary Poetry: Results of Its Evaluation

Alberto Eugenio Stefanini, Anika Nicolosi, Monica Monachini
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 8 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 17
ISSN: 2155-4196|EISSN: 2155-420X|EISBN13: 9781522567592|DOI: 10.4018/IJACDT.2019070103
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Stefanini, Alberto Eugenio, et al. "A Mock-up for the Development of a Digital Edition for Ancient Greek Fragmentary Poetry: Results of Its Evaluation." IJACDT vol.8, no.2 2019: pp.41-57. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.2019070103

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Stefanini, A. E., Nicolosi, A., & Monachini, M. (2019). A Mock-up for the Development of a Digital Edition for Ancient Greek Fragmentary Poetry: Results of Its Evaluation. International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology (IJACDT), 8(2), 41-57. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.2019070103

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Stefanini, Alberto Eugenio, Anika Nicolosi, and Monica Monachini. "A Mock-up for the Development of a Digital Edition for Ancient Greek Fragmentary Poetry: Results of Its Evaluation," International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology (IJACDT) 8, no.2: 41-57. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.2019070103

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Abstract

Ancient Greek poetry is an essential part of the western cultural heritage; thus, it is important that people have access to its texts and whatever relates to their understanding in a reliable and easy way. Whenever user evaluation is concerned, mock-ups are used by designers to acquire feedback from users. A mock-up is defined as a model of the final product, and may be used for demonstration, evaluation and other purposes. The authors prototyped a mock-up for focusing on the requirements of a scholarly digital edition of Archilochus. This was put under evaluation to assess its usability: it was submitted to extensive use and testing by a sample of prospective users, to better focus on the requirements from a product's perspective. Experimentation involved a group of university students, attending a Greek Philology course at Parma University. More than half of the respondents considered the mock-up a useful study support. The evaluation also pointed out that the mock-up had to be revised, so as to guarantee better cognitive simplicity of the user interface.

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